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got a bushel of plaster for some otlier part 

 of the turnips, and sowed it on a square 

 near to the road ; when in twenty-four 

 hours I could discern the crop to be of a 

 much deeper green, and in forty-eight 

 hours so much so that any spectator would 

 have supposed the land on which these 

 turnips growed to be of superior quality, 

 I then sowed another bushel of it on two 

 rows, and missed two rows : the turnips 

 growed to a much greater size where the 

 plaster of Paris was put, than in the rest of 

 the field, in the increased proportion of 

 about two to one in weight where the first 

 two bushels were applied, and about three 

 to two where the last bushel, besides being 

 much juicier and a better kind. 



Having got our hay stacked, turnips 

 hoed, &c. the peaches began to be ripe, and 

 we wanted a purchaser for them. My sons 

 and myself set to work to pull them, and 

 we were fortunate enough to find a black 

 fellow (who had been one of my mowers^ 

 to sell them — this being an employment 



